Ece Şara
Zeynep Ünlü
Hüsamettin Doğan
Burcu Çınar
Hüseyin Yazar
Çağdaş Çizer
Dilara İnal
Tuğçe Nur Şahin
İrem Naz Dolu
Yaren Şevval Beceni
Nazlı Deniz Rona
Gözde Kuşçuoğlu
Yusuf Gökhan Penezoğlu
Partner - Attorney at Law
yusuf.penezoglu@bts-legal.com
AWARDS
Yusuf has a comprehensive experience on tax law established by providing extensive services to his local and international clients in all tax related matters. He advices clients on a wide range of issues that rise from any tax issues and represent them during tax inspection and tax dispute resolution processes. He is also experienced on restructuring and M&A projects and skilled in capital markets and real estate legislation.
Practices Areas
Tax Law
Customs Law
Tax & Customs
Dispute Resolution
Tax Inspection Consultancy
M&A
Restructuring
Capital Markets
Real Estate
Education
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Bilgi University, Faculty of Law, LL.M.
Robert Kennedy College Zurich, International Taxation, LL.M.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Ece advises local and international clients on tax law matters. She participates in tax dispute resolution services from the beginning of the dispute until the finalization of the court process with a judicial decision. Moreover, she provides tax advisory services on multinational and national clients’ daily business, as well as restructuring services by focusing on tax efficiency. She has also significant experience on management of tax inspection by representing clients before tax inspectors and reduce their tax risk to take place as a result of the tax inspections.
Practices Areas
Tax Law
Customs Law
Tax & Customs
Dispute Resolution
Tax Inspection Consultancy
Restructuring
Education
Istanbul University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Leiden University, European and International Business Law, LL.M
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Zeynep has an extensive experience at advising her multinational clients with any transactional and non-transactional works they have with regards to the Turkish market. Working for many clients from variety of industries, including most notably the IT sector, for over 10 years, Zeynep specializes in Business and Commercial Law, IT Law and Public Projects and Procurements
Practice Areas
Contracts
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Fintech
Information Technologies
IP
Outsourcing & Technology Transfers
Pro Bono
Public Projects & Procurement
Education
Koç University, Law School, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Okan Arıcan
Partner and Head of M&A and Corporate Transactions, Attorney at Law
okan.arican@bts-legal.com
AWARDS
Okan advises local and international clients on corporate law and also on the resolution of commercial disputes. He also specializes in corporate and transactional works, with a focus on the FDI, NGOs, VCs and private equity funds as well as entrepreneurs. He advises his clients for structuring, executing and closing their transactions contemplated with respect to the Turkish market, provides daily preventative maintenance and counseling services to both local and global clients, with regards to their operations within Turkish jurisdiction, determines the legal risks and generates optimized solutions to the legal challenges.
Practice Areas
Contracts
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Fintech
Outsourcing & Technology Transfers
Pro Bono
Public Projects & Procurement
Education
Koç University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Kübra Çürüksulu
Senior Associate - Attorney at Law
kubra.curuksulu@bts-legal.com
AWARDS
Kübra offers consultancy in IT, commercial & employment law and she is also an appreciated litigator specialized mostly on consumer and fraud cases. She advises local and multinational clients in IPR contract negotiation support, eCommerce, Telecommunications, Contract Law, Employment Law and Consumer Law. She also presents litigation services in civil cases and criminal cases related to cyber-crimes.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Fraud & Cybersecurity
Information Technologies
Pro Bono
Public Projects & Procurement
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Koç University, School of Law, LL.B.
Boğaziçi University, Information Sytems, MA
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Hüsamettin focuses his practises on information and communications as well as intellectual property law, data protection, privacy, and competition law. He works with local and international clients that are leading technology companies of the sector, advises them on various areas, while mainly focusing on technology law, internet law, data privacy, public policy, data protection and compliance.
Practice Areas
Contracts
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Information Technologies
IP
Media and Entertainment
Personal Data Protection
Public Policy
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Yeditepe University, Law School, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Burcu focuses her practices on corporate law and M&A, contract law and employment law. She is active in the start-up environment and provides legal advice especially regarding foreign direct investments, VC and private equity funds. She also participates in due diligence projects for M&A transactions.
Practice Areas
Contracts
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Fintech
Education
Koç University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Koç University, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Economics Department, B.A
EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Summer School on European Law
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English, German
Hüseyin offers consultancy in IT, commercial law and he also advises regarding consumer cases and cybersecurity cases. He advises local and multinational clients in IPR contract negotiation support, eCommerce, Telecommunications, Contract Law, Consumer Law, Cyber Security Law and Data Protection Law. He has attended several notable data protection projects. He provides consultancy about personal data protection rules for business models of the clients such as cloud service providers, mobile app and software developers, and the internet of things services providers.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Fraud & Cyber Security
Information Technologies
Personal Data Protection
Public Projects & Procurement
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Bilkent University, School of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Çağdaş offers consultancy in content regulation as well as intellectual property law, information technology law and electronic communication law. He has worked on a significant number of cases, in which he has represented fortune 500 clients before common courts, during mediations and in informal settlement talks.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Electronic Communication
Information Technologies
Intellectual Property
Media & Entertainment
Education
Kadir Has University, School of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Dilara focuses her practices on Turkish and international Tax Law. She participates in advice to be provided to multinational and national clients on various tax law matters, and provides tax dispute resolution services. She also contributes to restructuring/reorganization projects.
Practices Areas
Tax Law
Customs Law
Dispute Resolution
Restructuring
Education
Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
The European Law Students’ Association
Languages
Turkish, English
Tuğçe offers consultancy in content regulation as well as Consumer Law and information technology law. She advises multinational and national clients in Consumer Law, eCommerce, Contract Law and Cyber Security Law. She also presents litigation services in civil cases mostly on consumer disputes and criminal cases related to cyber-crimes.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Litigation
Fraud & Cybersecurity
Information Technologies
Media & Entertainment
Regulatory Compliance
Education
European University of Lefke, School of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
İstanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
İrem Naz offers consultancy in content regulation as well as Information Technologies Law. She advises multinational and national clients in Consumer Law, eCommerce, Contract Law and Cyber Security Law. She also provides litigation services in civil cases mostly on consumer disputes and criminal cases related to cyber-crimes.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Fraud&Cyber Security
Contracts
Consumer Law
Electronic Communications
Regulatory Compliance
Employment
Content Regulation
Education
Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
İstanbul Bar
The European Law Students’ Association
Genç ISTAC
Languages
Turkish, English
Yaren Şevval offers consultancy in content regulation as well as Information Technologies Law. She advises multinational and national clients in Consumer Law, eCommerce, Contract Law and Cyber Security Law and she also advises regarding consumer cases and cybersecurity cases.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Fraud & Cybersecurity
Consumer Law
Information Technologies
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Yeditepe University, School of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Nazlı focuses her practices on Tax Law. She participates on advises to be provided to multinational and national clients on various tax law matters and provides tax dispute resolution services. She also participates in restructuring/reorganization projects.
Practices Areas
Tax Law
Customs Law
Tax&Customs Dispute
Resolution
Restructuring
Education
Istanbul University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English, German
Gözde has served as an inhouse counsel in retail sector for Alshaya Group for 15 years. Alshaya is a leading international franchise operator for nearly 90 of the world's most recognised retail brands including Starbucks, H&M, Mothercare, The Cheesecake Factory, The Body Shop, M.A.C, Victoria’s Secret.
Having served as the Head of Legal, Ethics and Compliance Committee, Data Privacy Committee and the Disciplinary Committee in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, she engaged in a wide range of legal areas including but not limited to Retail Law, E-Commerce Law, Property Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Ethics and Corporate Compliance, Intellectual Law, Criminal Law.
During her service in Alshaya, she has led many multifunctional projects. i.e. legal structuring and business launch of e-commerce and mobile application digital platforms for Starbucks, The Body Shop, the Victoria’s Secrets and the Bath and Body Works in Turkey; implementation of the ethics and compliance program of the Company; the expansion of the business to Azerbaijan and Georgia, the structuring of the hospitality business.
Having a seat at the Company’s Executive Leadership Team, she had an effective role to guide the team in dealing with legal and regulatory issues that would have an impact on the Company’s operations and achievement of its business goals.
Prior to this role, Gözde was Attorney at Law for six years in a leading full service law office in Istanbul.
Gözde is also acting as a member of the Retail Legal and Arbitration Comitteee of TOBB (The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey), GPD (Food Retailers Association), KMD (Category Merchandising Association) and TAMPF (Turkey Federation of Shopping Malls and Retailers). She conducted several sectoral studies for law regulators on draft laws and achieved influential outcomes for the sector.
In 2015, Gözde has been listed on GC Powerlist Turkey as one of the most influential and innovative legal in-house counsels of Turkey by The Legal 500.
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